With lights dimming on one year and another waiting in the wings, let’s reflect for a moment on the numerous arts events you participated in during 2018.

Think about the piece of artwork that took your breath away.

Relive the dance performance where you felt you too were soaring across the stage.

Rekindle the excitement you felt in the theater as the curtains closed to enthusiastic applause.

Remember being transported to another place as you listened to the recitation of words eloquently strung together.

Hum along (again) with the crescendo of that hauntingly beautiful melody.

Let the vivid triumph of the big screen inspire your real-life plot.

More than eight million such experiences served South Carolinians and visitors: 43,170 artists; 6,753,924 adults; and 1,236,652 youth last year*. And most of them were made possible by South Carolina Arts Commission and South Carolina Arts Foundation statewide services and programs.

Support from you makes a big difference in delivering quality services and those immersive art experiences to all corners of the state. When you support the S.C. Arts Foundation's Arts Growth Fund, you support a worthwhile cause and you help start the creation of memorable experiences – for yourself and so many others.

A gift to the Arts Growth Fund kindles the exceptional talent within our borders that leads to these experiences. (Go ahead and see it for yourself: search “#SCartists” on social media platforms to see how they engage all the senses.)